Emma Pattee is an American climate journalist and fiction writer based in Portland, Oregon. Her journalism has appeared in leading publications such as The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and WIRED. In 2021, she introduced the term “Climate Shadow” to describe the broader impact of individual choices on climate change.Pattee's fiction has been featured in literary journals including Bellevue Literary Review, Idaho Review, New Orleans Review, Carve Magazine, Citron Review, and Alaska Quarterly Review. Her debut novel, Tilt, was published by Simon & Schuster in March 2025.